Medical glove

ABSTRACT

A medical glove includes a glove body shaped to wrap a user&#39;s hand and a slip prevention part constituted by pieces formed at one side of the glove body to prevent an object gripped by the glove body from slipping. The respective pieces of the slip prevention part are arranged at predetermined intervals so that the user wearing the glove body can perceive the object through spaces. An object being gripped by the medical glove, such as an endoscope device, can be prevented from slipping on or off even when a lubricant is applied to the endoscope device and the medical glove. The medical glove is provided with the slip prevention part directly formed thereon, and any intermediate member for preventing a slip of the object is not necessary. As a result, hygiene in the medical act or the operation of the endoscope device can be improved.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a medical glove, and more particularly,to a medical glove capable of improving convenience in operating medicaltools.

2. Discussion of the Related Art

Doctors generally use an endoscope device when examining the internalstate of a patient. In other words, doctors examine the patient's largeintestine, stomach and so on using an endoscope device.

Here, when operating the endoscope device, the doctor wears medicalgloves and applies lubricant to the medical gloves and the endoscopedevice for smooth insertion of the endoscope device into the patient'sorgans such as the large intestine or the stomach.

Thus wearing the medical gloves applied with the lubricant, the doctorinserts the endoscope device into the patient's body.

However, according to the above conventional method, there are a fewproblems as follows.

Since the medical gloves are applied with the lubricant, the endoscopedevice may idle or slip on the medical glove and therefore it becomeshard for the doctor to operate the endoscope device.

To prevent such a slip of the endoscope device on or off the medicalgloves caused by the lubricant, a dedicated member, for example, gauzewrapping the endoscope device has been used together. In this case,however, the gauze may adhere to the endoscope device or even get intothe patient's body along with the endoscope device.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a medical glove thatsubstantially obviate one or more problems due to limitations anddisadvantages of the related art.

An object of the present invention is to provide a medical glove capableof preventing a slip of an endoscope device thereon even when themedical glove and the endoscope device are applied with lubricant.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a medical glovecapable of improving operational convenience since not requiring adedicated intermediate member, and preventing contamination thereof.

Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will beset forth in part in the description which follows and in part willbecome apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art uponexamination of the following or may be learned from practice of theinvention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention may berealized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in thewritten description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.

To achieve these objects and other advantages and in accordance with thepurpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, amedical glove comprises a glove body shaped to wrap a user's hand; and aslip prevention part constituted by a plurality of pieces formed at oneside of the glove body to prevent an object gripped by the glove bodyfrom slipping on or off the glove body, wherein the respective pieces ofthe slip prevention part are arranged at predetermined intervals so thatthe user wearing the glove body can perceive the object through spacesamong the pieces of the slip prevention part.

Here, the slip prevention part may be formed at a thumb part and anindex finger part of the glove body.

The slip prevention part may be made of an unwoven fabric.

The slip prevention part may be made of silicon.

The slip prevention part may be formed at a middle finger part and apalm part of the glove body.

As apparent from the above description, in accordance with the medicalglove according to the above-described embodiment of the presentinvention, because a slip prevention part is provided to the medicalglove, an endoscope device can be prevented from slipping on or off themedical glove although a lubricant is applied to the endoscope deviceand the medical glove. Accordingly, more convenient operation of theendoscope device can be achieved. Furthermore, since no intermediatemember for preventing slip of the endoscope device is dedicatedlyrequired, hygiene in operation of the endoscope device can be improved.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description andthe following detailed description of the present invention areexemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide furtherexplanation of the invention as claimed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a furtherunderstanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute apart of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention andalong with the description serve to explain the principle of theinvention. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a medical glove according to a first embodimentof the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a medical glove according to a secondembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a medical glove according to a third embodimentof the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of thepresent invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be usedthroughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.

As shown in FIG. 1 through FIG. 3, a medical glove according toembodiments of the present invention comprises a glove body 2 configuredto wrap a user' hand, and a slip prevention part 4 formed on one side ofthe glove part 2, being constituted by a plurality of pieces, to preventan object gripped by the hand wearing the medical glove from slipping onor off the medical glove.

More specifically, as shown in the drawings, the glove body 2 has ashape of a hand, that is, a general glove shape extending up to a wristpart. Although various materials may be employed for the glove body 2,it is preferred that the globe body 2 is made of latex in considerationof safety in the medical acts to be performed to human beings andanimals.

In addition, the material for the glove body 2 needs to be in the formof a thin membrane for better perception of the user's hand with respectto the object in contact with the hand through the medium of the glovebody 2. That is, a material of general thick rubber gloves is not properfor the glove body 2.

The slip prevention part 4 is provided on the medical gloves to preventa slip of the object being picked up or gripped by the user's handwearing the glove body 2. To this end, the slip prevention part 4 may beformed at positions on the glove body 2 which are actually brought intocontact with the object when the glove body 2 grips the object. Forexample, in case of the object is an endoscope device, the slipprevention part 4 can be formed at a thumb part 2 a and an index fingerpart 2 b of the glove body 2.

The slip prevention part 4 may be made of a skidproof material, that is,having a high frictional coefficient, such as silicon. Otherwise, theslip prevention part 4 may be made of an unwoven fabric or a cottonfabric. The reason of using such a rough material for the slipprevention part 4 is to endow the slip prevention part 4 with africtional force considering that a lubricant is applied to the glovebody 2 for more convenient operation especially when the user examinesthe patient with an endoscope device.

In addition, the reason of using the silicon, unwoven fabric or cottonfabric for the material of the glove body 2 is to secure safety in useof the medical gloves to a human body. In other words, other materialscontaining chemical substances that are harmful to the human body or asandy material cannot be used for the medical gloves.

Meanwhile, instead of separately forming and attaching the slipprevention part 4 to necessary positions of the glove body 2, it is alsopossible to make uneven parts (not shown) by deforming the glove body 2such that the endoscope device does not slip on or off the glove body 2when the glove body 2 grips the endoscope device. However, it is stillpreferred that the uneven parts are made of a material having a highfrictional coefficient.

Additionally, the slip prevention part 4 may comprise a plurality ofpieces rather than only one part formed on the glove body 2 by apredetermined area. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, the slipprevention part 4 may be formed as the plurality of pieces arranged atpredetermined intervals such that a space can be secured for the user tosense the object through the glove body 2.

Here, it is required to minimize the area of the glove body 2 coveredwith the slip prevention part 4 so that the user's perception of theobject through the glove body 2 is not deteriorated, as long as the slipprevention part 4 can perform its basic function. To this end, it ispreferred that a the slip prevention part 4 comprises a lot of smallpieces in order to restrain interruption of the user's perception withrespect to the object through the glove body 2 while maintaining thebasic function.

For example, the slip prevention part 4 may be formed as a plurality ofcircular pieces as shown in the drawings. Also, however, it will besurely understood that the slip prevention part 4 may have polygonalshapes.

The slip prevention part 4 may be concentrated to the thumb part 2 a andthe index finger part 2 b of the glove body 2 because the medical glovesare usually used for medical acts and operation of medial tools, inother words, the user's thumb and index finger are most frequently usedduring the medical acts or operation.

As shown in FIG. 2, if necessary, the slip prevention part 4 may beextended up to a middle finger part 2 c of the glove body 2. The slipprevention part 4 may be formed at a part or the whole part of the palmof the glove body 2 in order to secure the frictional force through alarger area. As shown in FIG. 3, therefore, the slip prevention part 4may be formed throughout the glove body 2.

Hereinafter, the operation of the medical glove having the abovedescribed structure will be described in detail.

Presuming that the user performs a medical act, for example, examines apatient using an endoscope device, the user puts on the medical gloveand applies the lubricant to the whole surface of the glove body 2.

Here, the lubricant is applied to the endoscope device and the medicalglove such that the endoscope device can be smoothly inserted and movedthrough the patient's mouth and gullet, or the anus and the largeintestine.

While inserting the endoscope device into the patient's body, the usermay rotate the endoscope device to photograph the internal organs of thepatient or additionally inject medicine in the patient's body throughthe endoscope device.

Like this, when the user has to take another act while inserting theendoscope device into the patient's body, the slip prevention part 4formed on the medical glove helps the user stably perform the act inspite of the lubricant applied throughout the glove body 2 of themedical glove.

Especially when operating the endoscope device, the user mainly uses thethumb part 2 a and the index finger part 2 b. Therefore, the slipprevention part 4 is concentratively formed at the thumb part 2 a andthe index finger part 2 b so that the object such as the endoscopedevice can be prevented from slipping on or off the medical glove, andthe contacting area between the user's hand and the object through theglove body 2 can be maximized.

As can be appreciated from the above description, the medical glovesaccording to the embodiments of the present invention have advantages asfollows.

Since a slip prevention part is prepared, an object being gripped by themedical glove, such as an endoscope device, can be prevented fromslipping on or off the medical glove even when a lubricant is applied tothe endoscope device and the medical glove. Accordingly, the user isable to operate the endoscope device more conveniently.

In addition, the medical glove is provided with the slip prevention partdirectly formed thereon, any intermediate member for preventing a slipof the object is not necessary. As a result, the medical act or theoperation of the endoscope device can be performed more hygienically.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that variousmodifications and variations can be made in the present inventionwithout departing from the spirit or scope of the inventions. Thus, itis intended that the present invention covers the modifications andvariations of this invention provided they come within the scope of theappended claims and their equivalents.

1. A medical glove comprising: a glove body shaped to wrap a user'shand; and a slip prevention part constituted by a plurality of piecesformed at one side of the glove body to prevent an object gripped by theglove body from slipping on or off the glove body, wherein therespective pieces of the slip prevention part are arranged atpredetermined intervals so that the user wearing the glove body canperceive the object through spaces among the pieces of the slipprevention part.
 2. The medical glove according to claim 1, wherein theslip prevention part is formed at a thumb part and an index finger partof the glove body.
 3. The medical glove according to claim 1, whereinthe slip prevention part is made of an unwoven fabric.
 4. The medicalglove according to claim 1, wherein the slip prevention part is made ofsilicon.
 5. The medical glove according to claim 1, wherein the slipprevention part is formed at a middle finger part and a palm part of theglove body.